I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.